Water and drought information-agriculture
Water and Drought Information | Experts
General irrigation and other:
- Drought Tips Series for Growers - a research-based, peer-reviewed series on the latest drought information for specific crops as well as irrigation and other approaches
- UC Drought Management - irrigation scheduling and deficit irrigation strategies for almonds, pistachios, stone fruit, walnuts, alfalfa, olives, winegrapes, corn, and processing tomatoes
- Proven solutions to drought stress: Water management strategies for perennial crops with limited and impaired water supplies (workshop co-sponsored with USDA-ARS and Israel Ministry of Agriculture) - presentations from January 2016 workshop available
- Irrigating Field Crops in a Water-Short Year - presentations from March 2014 workshop
- Pomology and drought - presentations from 2014 workshop
- 2014 California Plant and Soil Conference - video available
- UC Davis Biometeorology Group
Crop specific:
- Alfalfa
- Drought strategies for alfalfa (part of our drought tips series)
- Alfalfa’s resilience to drought
- Alfalfa Subsurface Drip Irrigation Workshop - video and papers
- 2014 California Alfalfa & Grains Symposium - video presentations
- Almonds
- Corn: Managing irrigated corn during drought (part of our drought tips series)
- Pasture: Managing irrigated pasture during drought (part of our drought tips series)
- Pistachios
- Prunes: Drought strategies for California prune production (part of our drought tips series)
- Vineyards
- Walnuts
- Drought strategies for walnuts (part of our drought tips series)